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'They didn't have my permission to do that,' Baskin says. Netflix has said in court documents that the pair, who wed in 2004, 'have no claim at all.' When Baskin saw herself featured in the trailer for the next chapter of 'Tiger King' (which started filming in April 2020 and continued until recently) she thought to herself 'How on earth did they have images of me in that?' she tells USA TODAY. 'That's why we filed the lawsuit.'īaskin and her husband are suing Royal Goode Productions and Netflix for including her in the show's sophomore season. In the two-part docuseries, Baskin, her husband Howard Baskin and their team of investigators go on the attack to protect big cats against abuse by zoo owners. The co-star and originator of the once-ubiquitous greeting, 'Hey, all you cool cats and kittens!' would prefer that viewers instead tune in to ' Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight' (now streaming on Discovery+). Netflix unleashed ' Tiger King 2' Wednesday, but Carole Baskin wants no part of it. Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge announced on Facebook Thursday that they will be taking in 35 cats from Big Cat Rescue as part of an expansion plan, 'building a sustainable future for animals rescue.Watch Video: Carole Baskin reveals thoughts on Joe Exotic's cancer diagnosis 'Having ended most of the abuse of big cats via the BCPSA, focusing on the third prong of our mission, i.e., maximizing the amount we can donate to in situ projects to save the cats from extinction, is the best way to fulfill our mission and impact the most cats going forward,' the memo added. If the need were going to continue at the pace we saw up until a few years ago, we would be making a different decision,' the memo read. 'With the passage of the BCPSA we expect the need for rescues to decline over the coming decade. Lawmakers introduced the legislation after 'Tiger King,' the popular docuseries about an eccentric keeper of big cats in Oklahoma, drew attention to the issue. In 2021, the US House of Representatives passed a bill, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, to prohibit unlicensed people from owning tigers, lions, jaguars and other wild animals. RELATED: Sheriff seeking tips in 'Tiger King' mystery: What happened to Carole Baskin's husband?

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'Supporting our cats in larger enclosures at Turpentine Creek, at much lower cost per cat than we incur by continuing to operate Big Cat Rescue, will free up resources to let us do much more to save big cats in the wild.' 'We have always said that our goal was to 'put ourselves out of business,' meaning that there would be no big cats in need of rescue and no need for the sanctuary to exist,' the memo read.

Once all the cats at the sanctuary have been moved, the Hillsborough County sanctuary property will be sold, and the proceeds will be used to 'fund these species-saving projects in the wild,' according to the memo. The video featured is from a previous report. 'Big Cat Rescue has entered into an agreement with Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, an accredited sanctuary in Arkansas, to move most of Big Cat Rescue's cats to Turpentine Creek where we will continue to fund their care for the rest of their lives,' Howard Baskin, Carole Baskin's husband, said in a memo.

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Most of the big cats at Carole Baskin's Florida animal sanctuary profiled in Netflix's 'Tiger King' series will be moving to a sanctuary in Arkansas and Big Cat Rescue's land will eventually be sold. Carole Baskin awarded animal park that once belonged to Tiger King Joe Exotic